Takako Matsu

New Year’s Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment ...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of ...

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in ...

After losing her husband to death following a troubled marriage, a woman unexpectedly travels back to the moment before their first meeting, ...

Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His ...

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku – ...